The report 'Migration and Global Environmental Change: Future Challenges and Opportunities' has been launched at the Royal Geographical Society in London on 20th October 2011.
The project,commissioned as part of the UK Government’s Foresight Project 'Migration and Global Environmental Change', considers the issues of human migration and global environmental change over the next 50 years. The final report represents the culmination of two years work involving over 350 experts from 30 countries from a diverse range of disciplines. The project examined potential migration patterns as well as a wide range of issues including the management of ‘trapped’ populations who are unable to move; and the implications of people being as likely to move towards areas of environmental risk as they are to move away from such areas. However it concludes that migration may not be just part of the ‘problem’ but can also be part of the solution to managing global environmental change, representing a form of adaptation and contributing to long-term resilience.
Professor Sarah Harper contributed to the Foresight review with a report on 'Environment, Migration and the Demographic Deficit'.
Further information:
Foresight Review 'Migration and Global Environmental Change: Future Challenges and Opportunities'
